* leee -- Saturday 14 July 2007: > Perhaps FG has reached the point where it positively needs some > sort of oversight management and planning, as seems to happen > with many, if not most, large-scale Open-source projects > e.g. Apache, Wine etc.
I think that projects where this works always have a few sponsored (paid) developers. Of course, you can tell those on what to work. But you can't tell unpaid developers. What if some project manager says "the next point on our plan is to beef up weather modeling" -- do you think that Andy, Fred, Mathias, Maik, etc. will then all work on weather stuff? Even though they have no interest in that region (other than having it work nicely when they run fgfs themselves)? I have insight in a few F/OSS projects, and everywhere it's the developers who make their plans. Each on their own. Except paid developers, where it's sometimes the sponsor. I for one don't really have a TODO list, though I often say I'd put something there. :-) I decide on which things to work on next as I run into them. Segfaults are often a motivation to look into some code. Sometimes I need/want a feature and find that it doesn't work as I think it should, and work on that. Today I just thought that I'd like to do something "nice", something with Nasal and placing models. (False alarm -- I haven't done anything. Well, not for FlightGear that is. But it's not too late ... :-) m. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
